Thursday, August 28, 2014

Hello Kitty Is Not A Cat!

Hello Kitty is NOT a cat.

Yes, you read that right. Hello Kitty is no kitty. So say Sanrio,
the company behind the worldwide icon of cuteness.

The news first came to light when University of Hawaii
anthropologist Christine R. Yano was curating an upcoming Hello Kitty
retrospective at the Japanese American National Museum and she was corrected by
the company on the show. Sanrio, very firmly, said that Hello Kitty is no cat. She's
a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. She's never
depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature and even has
a pet cat of her own, called Charmmy Kitty.

She is no cat.

To no one's surprise, the world reacted in collective shock!
Hello Kitty is no kitty? What's next? Scooby-doo is not a dog? For their sake,
I hope Sanrio change their company line on this. Hello Kitty fans are not a
bunch of people you want mad at you.